October 15, 2011, Saturday - Childish Films at Central Library

Time: 10:30am - Noon

Location:  Pohlad Hall at Central Library, 300 Nicollet

HALLOWEEN TOONS FOR TOTS

The annual Halloween show featuring lots of skeletons, robbers, black cats, and bats.

• The Skeleton Dance, Walt Disney, 1929. Skeletons, bats, and cats dance in a moonlit graveyard. 6 min.
• The Old Mill, Walt Disney, 1937. A stormy night in an abandoned old mill inhabited by birds, bats, mice, and other wild creatures. An Oscar-award winning short with dramatic thunder and lightning (and a sunny ending). 9 min.
• Skeleton Frolic, Columbia Pictures, 1937. A colorful revision of The Skeleton Dance, made a decade later by one of Disney's most famous early animators, Ub Iwerks. 7 min.
• The Three Robbers, Weston Woods, 1972. Tomi Ungerer's dark story of three robbers who like to scare people, thwarted by a spunky orphan girl. 6 min.
• What’s Under My Bed?, Weston Woods, 1990. Two kids come up with rational explanations when their Grandpa recounts his childhood bedtime fears. 8 minutes.

The extras: Come in costume! Boo-gie down! Make your own Halloween craft to take home.

Preschool-grade 6. A program of children's cinema and arts, featuring unique films, hands-on arts activities, live entertainment and educational introductions for children's film fans. For more information, visit: www.supporthclib.org.
 
A program of the Library Foundation of Hennepin County. Support provided by Whole Foods Market, Lerner Publishing Group, Weston Wood Studios, Minnesota Parent and Jagged Edge.